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title: “That is probably a wax-work show,” thought he; “and the people dela… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “That is probably a wax-work show,” thought he; “and the people delay taking down their sign in hopes of a late visitor or two.” Who acts: That, work show, people, late visitor. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 42

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“That is probably a wax-work show,” thought he; “and the people delay taking down their sign in hopes of a late visitor or two.”

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**Who acts:** That, work show, people, late visitor · **What happens:** be, think, delay, take down, sign, hope · **To what, where:** work show, Fate, sign, hopes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, work show, people, late visitor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:5:42
# text = “That is probably a wax-work show,” thought he; “and the people delay taking down their sign in hopes of a late visitor or two.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	delay	delay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | a work show |  |  |  | probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | a work show | Fate |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **delay** *in a quote* | present | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **take down** *in a quote* | gerund | the people *not said here* | people's sign |  | hopes of a late visitor |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sign=Theme in hope=Destination |
| 5 | **sign** *in a quote* |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **hope** *in a quote* |  | a late visitor |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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